Making a Connection from a PCoIP Client

Configurable Settings

The following settings can be configured on the . Refer to Configuring the Anyware agent to understand how to modify these settings.

Security Certificates in Anyware Agents

PCoIP requires a certificate to establish a session. By default, Anyware agents generate a self-signed certificate that secures the PCoIP session. Each component in the PCoIP system can generate these self-signed certificates, which will automatically work together without requiring any configuration.

Installing the Private Key and Certificate on the Anyware agent Desktop

The agent certificate and signing certificate must be installed on each desktop running a Anyware agent.

To install the agent certificate and signing certificate:

1. Open the Microsoft Management Console on the agent machine:

Installing the Internal Root CA Certificate in a Anyware client

Your root CA certificate must be installed in any Anyware client that will be used to connect to the Anyware agent.

Creating And Installing Custom Certificates

This section describes how to replace HP's default certificates with your own custom certificates.

Configuring the Agent Certificate Mode

The Anyware Agent chooses a certificate based on the parameters set in the Configure PCoIP Security Certificate Settings GPO variable.

Since Anyware agents automatically generate and use self-signed certificates by default, you only need to configure the Configure PCoIP Security Certificate Settings GPO variable if you are deploying your own custom certificates.

Reference Information for VSphere Users

This section contains reference information useful for VSphere users configuring displays with the Anyware Graphics Agent.

You can find information here for:

Configuring Multiple Monitors for NVIDIA GRID vGPU

This section describes how to add a shared NVIDIA GRID PCI device to your virtual machine and specify its GPU profile. The following instructions are only required for virtualized workstations using a supported NVIDIA GRID vGPU video card.